11 St Marks Place

also 9 St Marks Place | New Brighton | built 1872

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1866

    Mary Walser buys the Pendleton land and builds a double house

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    Mary Walser, wife of Dr. Theodore Walser, bought a tract running from St. Marks Place to Carroll Place from William Pendleton in 1866. This three-story Second Empire frame double house went up on it between 1866 and 1872, and the Walsers moved into No. 9 when it was finished. Its design matches the slightly later double house at 17-19 St. Marks Place.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1881

    Dr. Theodore Walser of No. 9 becomes New Brighton's health officer

    Swiss-born Dr. Theodore Walser had been deputy health officer at the Quarantine Hospital, and in 1858 was the only doctor who tried to defend it when a mob of islanders set its buildings on fire, until pistols were held to his head. After the Civil War he practiced from his New Brighton home. In 1881 he was named health officer for the Village of New Brighton, and he later served as coroner and Sanitary Superintendent of Richmond County.

    “In 1881, Dr. Walser was appointed Health Officer for the Village of New Brighton.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1925

    A newspaper editor and a school principal live in the two halves of the house

    Title eventually passed to the Walsers' daughter Mary J. Janeway, who lived at No. 11 briefly in the 1910s. Their widowed daughter Dr. Emma Townsend lived at No. 11 with her five children in 1915. By 1925 newspaper editor Albert Britt and his wife Dorothy lived at No. 9 with physiotherapist Emilie Wellington, while public school principal Samuel Viertel and his wife Jennie lived at No. 11.

    “Dorothy and Albert Britt, a newspaper editor, and Emilie Wellington, a physio-therapist at No. 9 in 1925…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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